?2016 Smart Risks vs Impossible Odds

Ryu''s body was being locked in place by a series of complex laws. To his eyes, they looked like the Runes of the world, something that he was very familiar with as a Formation Master.

But it was more complicated than just that. It was almost like the woman''s pupils were instantly forming a Visualization of sorts, while also borrowing power from the world itself to strengthen it. With this sort of binding power, even a Sovereign would be locked down for a brief instant, and if she was willing to give up her eye, maybe even a Dao God.

Having come to this conclusion, Ryu shook his head. That was unlikely.

She didn''t have any true Heavenly Pupils. Instead, she seemed to have replaced her Pupils with shocking abilities that were just a step below Heavenly Pupils, something that Ryu had never seen before.

Was she trying to create them like Primus had succeeded in? That was a possibility. It was just that... She still had a long way to go.

Ryu''s Childe of Chaos and Order constitutions rippled only slightly for a flaw to appear.

[Death Acupoint].

A needle of qi came from a simple roll of his shoulder. It pierced right through before he even had the care to look toward his surroundings again.

By this point, Adlael was a mess of blood, continuously charging, and continuously getting flung away as though he was no more than a fly being swatted.

His state of mind was far too fragile, and the more cracked it was, the easier it was for Ryu to read him.

By this point, Ryu''s [Lines of Fate] weren''t just working on a few percentage points when it came to Adlael. He had seen through his heart so implicitly that his ability to predict his next actions was near 100%. So close, in fact, that it might as well have been 100%.

The synergy between his abilities had reached another level. Now, he could use the Chaos half of his Dao to read people, and then use what he understood to read their Fate and Karma with much greater ease.

The woman was heaving deep breaths as well, but for very different reasons. Her shock was still practically palpable, but she knew that if she didn''t wake Adlacl up, they would all die.

Ryu casually sent a glance into the air to find that Young Master Moon and Falling Snow were still standing there. They took up separate halves of the sky as though sentries watching over his death. Ryu couldn''t help but chuckle. He really hated people standing above him, but these guys didn''t seem to know their place.

He really wondered what made them think they had the right to do so. There was only one person here who had even a chance of defeating him in a one-on-one battle, and it was certainly not them. They were lucky that she was allowing them to gather information for her. It seemed that in the time he was away, Sarriel had only become more cautious.

Despite her rage and his baiting words, her Dao Heart was exceptionally firm in its convictions. She wouldn''t act unless she was absolutely certain that she could protect her life.

But the irony of it was that Ryu knew she would act anyway, even if she eventually realized that there really was a chance she could lose her life to him.

He was starting to understand Sarriel''s Dao Heart a bit better. It wasn''t that she was unwilling to take risks. If she wasn''t, she would have never grown so strong.

It was rather that she was only willing to take smart risks, ones that weren''t up against impossible odds.

Maybe that was smart.

However... Ryu simply couldn''t allow it.

If he allowed his Dao Heart to feel aggrieved after all those years of suppression he faced for so very

long, he would feel maybe even more agitated than Adlael had just now.

No one was worthy of making him feel that way. Not even his own wife.

Ryu reached out a hand, and the world flickered as a bow appeared in his palm.